Re: CDDL/GPL and Nexenta (with CDDL libc)
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Anil Gulecha <anil@nexenta.org> writes:
>
>> Illumos will be the upstream. Illumos project started out as a branch
>> of OpenSolaris code, but is now effectively a fork of OpenSolaris
>> codebase.
>
> I don't understand the distinction being made there. What is different
> between “a branch of the code” versus “a fork of the codebase”?
>
The idea initally was not to explicitly be a fork (go on a different
development path). lllumos was to follow OpenSolaris closely, except
replacing closed binaries and maintaining drivers upstream may drop. I
guess you can technically call this a fork.. but the idea was to be
close.
Now, Illumos has no real upstream, and is maintaining the last code
drop, and will merge changes from future code drops.
Regards,
Anil
http://www.gulecha.org
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